Dam may be erected. Chute to be built. SEC. 2. That George C. Daniels, his associates, succes sors and assigns, be, and are hereby authorized to build and maintain a dam across the Milwaukee river, upon any land owned by them upon section one, town ten, range twenty-one, in the town of Grafton, Washington county, and to make use of the water for hydraulic purposes: Provided, that said dam shall not be constructed of such height as to injure the water power now in use by William Paine on the northwest quarter of section number thirty-six and the southwest quarter of section number twenty-five, in township number eleven, range number twenty-one, or in any manner to affect the rights conferred upon the owners of said lands by an act of this territory, approved February 3d, 1846. SEC. 3. That the respective owners of the said dams shall build and maintain in said dams a convenient slide or chute not to be less than fifteen feet wide, and so constructed as not to cause a fall of more than three feet to every twelve feet of smooth surface, to admit the free passage of all rafts and timber down said stream. SEC. 4. The legislature may alter or amend this act at any time. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, March 2, 1848, HORATIO N. WELLS, President of the Counci HENRY DODGE. AN ACT To legalize the territorial road from Racine to Burlington. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: 1 SECTION 1. That the acts of John T. Trowbridge, Moses Vilas and Elias Smith, commissioners to survey and lay out a territorial road from Racine to Burlington, by an act of the legislative assembly of the territory of Wisconsin, approved 12th April, A. D. 1843, in laying out said road,, be, and the same are hereby legalized; and the said road is hereby declared to be as legal and valid, to all intents and purposes whatever, as if the survey thereof had been made, and the plat thereof recorded in the office of the secretary of the territory within the time prescribed by law. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, March 2, 1848. President of the Council, HENRY DODGE, AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Waukesha Rail Road Company." Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That in the first section of said act where the name of "Alexander F. Picett" occurs, it shall read Alexander F. Pratt, and that the names of Levi Blossom and Josiah A. Noonan of Milwaukee, and William S. Hawkins of Waukesha, be added to the commissioners: And further, that wherever the name or word "Prairieville" occurs in said act it shall read Waukesha. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, March 2, 1848. President of the Council. HENRY DODGE. AN ACT To organize the county of Manitowoc for judicial purposes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That from and after the second Tuesday of County to have certain April next the county of Manitowoc shall be organized for privileges. judicial purposes, and shall enjoy all the privileges of the counties of this territory. It shall form a part of the third judicial district, and the courts therein shall be held by the judge of said district. SEC. 2. All writs, process, appeals, recognizances, or other Validity of proceedings commenced in the district court of Brown county ceedings. legal proprior to the second Tuesday of April next, shall be prosecuted to final judgment, and execution issued thereon, in the same manner they might or could have been had this act not passed; and execution on any judgment heretofore rendered in said court shall have the like force and effect, and may be exectued and returned by the sheriff of Brown county, any thing in any law of this territory to the contrary notwithstanding. ted. SEC. 3. The election of sheriff for said county shall be Sheriff when held on the first Tuesday of April next, at the places in the and how eleeseveral precincts at which the last general election was held, and thereafter at the time prescribed by law; and the returns of said election shall be made to the clerk of the board of county commissioners as now prescribed for other elections; and he shall proceed to canvass the same as the law requires. SEC. 4. The county commissioners of said county shall Suitable provide suitable rooms for holding the sessions of the district rooms to be provided for Court at such place or places in said county as they may deem district court. most convenient for its inhabitants: Provided, however, that the first term of said court to be held in said county shall be District court when held. County offi held at the school house at the county seat of said county, and unless the county commissioners shall deem it proper to change the place of holding said court, and shall file in the office of the clerk of the district court of said county at least sixty days before a session of said court their order to that effect, naming the place selected by them for that purpose, which said place or places whenever the said district cour: may be held, shall be deemed for all intents and purposes the court house of said county for the time being, then the said terms of the said court shall be continued to be held at the county seat until the county commissioners shall determine otherwise as herein provided: And provided further, th the county commissioners of said county are restricted from expending any sum exceeding one hundred dollars per annum for the fitting, renting or use of any building to be used as a court house aforesaid. SEC. 5. The district court shall be held in said county semi-annually, at such times as the judge of the third jud cial district shall determine, sixty days previous notice of the time of holding said court being given by said judge, causing notices thereof to be posted up in three public pla ces in said county. SEC. 6. It shall and may be lawful for the county officer cers where to to keep their offices at their residence in any part of th keep oflices. county. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its pa |